Art Faculty and Staff

  • Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz

    Associate Professor, School of Art, CVPA

    Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose work pulls from 17th and 18th-century European portraiture, comic books, sketch comedy, folkloric dance, and installation to address race, bias, trauma, and healing.
  • Zachary Rhoades

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Zachary Rhoades is a multi-dimensional visual artist with extensive experience in studio- and post-production. Zachary has used his over twenty years experience in TV production, working roles in conceptualization and writing, through studio production...
  • Jessica Rodriguez

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Jessica Pilar Rodríguez was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. After graduating high school, she moved to the United States in order to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.
  • Associate Professor, School of Art, CVPA

    As an editorial designer my goal is to create pages that engage the reader and make the essence of an article visible. I have been a designer for nearly 20 years, the last 12 as the design principal at a publication.
  • Donald Russell

    Assistant Professor, Director of Provisions Research Center for Art and Social Change, School of Art, CVPA and Museum Curator for Mason Exhibitions, CVPA

    Don Russell has been an active contemporary art curator and arts administrator since 1979. His research focuses on the exploration and development of new social contexts for art.
  • Jennifer Sakai

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Jennifer Sakai is a fine art photographer, professor and curator who resides in Washington D.C. She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Fine Art Photography, and her BFA in design from Lesley University in Cambridge Massachusetts.
  • Iris Sanchez

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Iris Sanchez has over eight years of experience in the field of graphic design, with a strong passion for publication and branding. Iris works as the Creative Director at Carr Properties and for three years worked as the senior graphic designer at The Association for Talent Development (ATD)...
  • Erik Sandberg

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Erik Thor Sandberg (b. 1975, Quantico, VA) lives and works in Washington, D.C. Sandberg is known for his masterful oil paintings of the human figure and landscape. Creating inventive imagery ranging from panoramic to intimate, Sandberg pushes the skillful illusionism of master painting to the contemporary edge of Magic Realism.
  • Pat Sargent

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    MFA Printmaking, 2016 (alumnus)
    BFA in Printmaking, George Mason University (alumnus)

    Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Patrick Sargent joined the military at age 17 to become a U.S. Air Force security policeman. In 2002, after twenty years of service, he prepared to retire from the military, and while completing his degree in political science an entry-level printmaking class changed his trajectory.
  • Thuy Senser

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

      Thuy Senser (pronounced Twee) is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University. He helps nonprofit organizations to successfully navigate digital transformation. This work includes development of websites...